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Aishwarya Rai
Indian actress and former Miss World, one of the most internationally recognized stars of Hindi cinema, with a career spanning Bollywood and Hollywood productions.
Below are actresses that contain the letter I anywhere in the name. Each of the 98 actresses below opens to a full profile.
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List of Actresses That Contain I
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Alicia Vikander
Swedish actress who won an Academy Award for "The Danish Girl" and starred in the rebooted "Tomb Raider" franchise.
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Amanda Seyfried
American actress who moved from teen comedies to acclaimed dramatic roles, earning an Academy Award nomination for "Mank".
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Angelina Jolie
American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian whose work spans action blockbusters, dramatic leads, and directing, with an Academy Award for "Girl, Interrupted".
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Barbra Streisand
American singer, actress, and filmmaker who is one of the few performers to win Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards (EGOT).
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Bette Davis
American actress widely regarded as one of the finest of Hollywood's classical era, with two Academy Awards and 10 nominations over a career spanning six decades.
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Bridget Fonda
American actress from the Fonda acting family, recognized for "Single White Female", "Point of No Return", and "Jackie Brown".
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Brie Larson
American actress who won an Academy Award for "Room" and went on to lead Marvel Studios' "Captain Marvel" films.
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Brigitte Bardot
French actress and singer, a global sex symbol of 1950s and 60s cinema who later became a prominent animal-rights advocate.
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Cameron Diaz
American actress and former model, one of the highest-grossing female stars of the 2000s, known for "There's Something About Mary" and the "Shrek" series.
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Carey Mulligan
British actress known for "An Education" and "Promising Young Woman", with three Academy Award nominations and major stage credits.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
Welsh actress who won an Academy Award for "Chicago" and a Tony Award for "A Little Night Music".
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Charlize Theron
South African and American actress who won an Academy Award for "Monster" and produced and starred in action features including "Mad Max - Fury Road" and "Atomic Blonde".
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Christina Ricci
American actress who began as a child star in "The Addams Family" and became a leading independent-film performer in the 1990s and 2000s.
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Claudia Cardinale
Tunisian-born Italian actress, a defining presence of 1960s European cinema in "The Leopard" and "Once Upon a Time in the West".
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Daisy Ridley
British actress best known as Rey in the sequel trilogy of "Star Wars", with later work in independent dramas and adventure films.
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Dakota Fanning
American actress who began as a child star opposite Sean Penn in "I Am Sam" and transitioned to adult dramas like "The Alienist" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
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Deepika Padukone
Indian actress and producer, one of Bollywood's highest-paid stars, with international roles in "xXx - Return of Xander Cage" and Cannes jury work.
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Demi Moore
American actress, one of the top-paid women in 1990s Hollywood, known for "Ghost", "A Few Good Men", and "G.I. Jane".
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Diane Keaton
American actress, director, and producer who won an Academy Award for "Annie Hall" and remains a leading romantic and comedic performer.
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Elizabeth Taylor
British-American actress and humanitarian, a defining star of mid-century Hollywood, with two Academy Awards and lifelong AIDS-research advocacy.
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Elle Fanning
American actress and producer, sister of Dakota Fanning, with leading roles in "The Neon Demon", "Maleficent", and the Hulu series "The Great".
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Emilia Clarke
British actress best known as Daenerys Targaryen in HBO's "Game of Thrones", with later roles in the Star Wars universe and West End productions.
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Freida Pinto
Indian actress and producer who broke through internationally with "Slumdog Millionaire" and continued in crossover features like "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".
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Goldie Hawn
American actress, producer, and singer with an Academy Award for "Cactus Flower" and lasting success in romantic and ensemble comedies.
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Helen Mirren
British actress with the Triple Crown of Acting (Oscar, Emmy, Tony) and a Cannes Best Actress prize, recognized for "The Queen" and Shakespeare on stage.
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Hilary Swank
American actress with two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby", with a career marked by physical transformation roles.
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Indira Varma
British actress known for "Game of Thrones", "Rome", and "Obi-Wan Kenobi", with extensive stage work at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Ingrid Bergman
Swedish actress with three Academy Awards and a Tony Award, an international leading lady remembered for "Casablanca", "Notorious", and "Anastasia".
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Isabelle Huppert
French actress with two Best Actress prizes at Cannes and a Volpi Cup at Venice, one of the most prolific and acclaimed leads in European cinema.
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Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author known for comedies including "Wedding Crashers", "Confessions of a Shopaholic", and "Now You See Me".
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Jennifer Lawrence
American actress, an Academy Award winner for "Silver Linings Playbook" and the lead of "The Hunger Games" franchise.
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Jessica Chastain
American actress with an Academy Award for "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" and a career spanning "Zero Dark Thirty", "Interstellar", and prestige stage productions.
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Jodie Foster
American actress and director with two Academy Awards for "The Accused" and "The Silence of the Lambs", with a career beginning at age three.
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Judi Dench
British actress with an Academy Award for "Shakespeare in Love" and a career spanning the Royal Shakespeare Company, James Bond's M, and major prestige features.
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Julia Roberts
American actress and producer, an Academy Award winner for "Erin Brockovich" and one of the highest-grossing female stars in Hollywood history.
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Julianne Moore
American actress with an Academy Award for "Still Alice", recognized for her work with Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Todd Haynes.
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Kate Winslet
British actress with an Academy Award for "The Reader" and a record seven Oscar nominations before age 38, with leads in "Titanic" and "Mare of Easttown".
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Katharine Hepburn
American actress with four Academy Awards for Best Actress, more than any other performer, with a career spanning six decades.
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Katherine Heigl
American actress and producer known for "Grey's Anatomy", "Knocked Up", and "27 Dresses", with a Primetime Emmy Award for "Grey's Anatomy".
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Keira Knightley
British actress recognized for period dramas including "Pride & Prejudice", "Atonement", and "The Imitation Game", with two Academy Award nominations.
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Kerry Washington
American actress and producer best known as Olivia Pope on ABC's "Scandal", with film roles in "Ray" and "Django Unchained".
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Kim Basinger
American actress and former model with an Academy Award for "L.A. Confidential", a leading star of 1980s and 90s Hollywood thrillers and dramas.
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Kristen Stewart
American actress recognized for "Twilight", "Personal Shopper", and the Academy Award-nominated lead in "Spencer" as Princess Diana.
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Lily Collins
British-American actress and producer best known as Emily Cooper in Netflix's "Emily in Paris", with film roles in "Mirror Mirror" and "To the Bone".
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Liv Tyler
American actress recognized for "Armageddon", "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy as Arwen, and a long career in romance and drama.
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Lupita Nyongo
Kenyan-Mexican actress who won an Academy Award for her debut feature "12 Years a Slave" and later led the Black Panther films and "Us".
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Madhuri Dixit
Indian actress and one of the most successful stars of Hindi cinema, recognized for "Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!", "Devdas", and her dance performances.
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Maggie Smith
British actress with two Academy Awards, a Tony, and an Emmy, with a career spanning the Royal Shakespeare Company, "Harry Potter", and "Downton Abbey".
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Margot Robbie
Australian actress and producer known for "I, Tonya", "Bombshell", and the title role and lead production credit on "Barbie".
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Marilyn Monroe
American actress, model, and singer, one of the most enduring icons of 20th-century cinema, known for "Some Like It Hot" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
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Marion Cotillard
French actress with an Academy Award for "La Vie en Rose", the first French-language performance to win Best Actress since 1961.
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Michelle Pfeiffer
American actress with three Academy Award nominations, recognized for "The Fabulous Baker Boys", "Dangerous Liaisons", and as Catwoman in "Batman Returns".
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Michelle Yeoh
Malaysian actress with an Academy Award for "Everything Everywhere All at Once", the first Asian woman to win Best Actress, with a career spanning Hong Kong action films and Hollywood.
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Mila Kunis
Ukrainian-American actress known for "Black Swan", "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", and her long-running role as Jackie Burkhart on "That '70s Show".
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Naomi Watts
British-Australian actress with two Academy Award nominations, recognized for "Mulholland Drive", "21 Grams", and "The Impossible".
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Naomie Harris
British actress with an Academy Award nomination for "Moonlight", recognized for "28 Days Later", the James Bond films as Eve Moneypenny, and "Pirates of the Caribbean".
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Nargis Dutt
Indian actress and Member of Parliament, the first recipient of the Padma Shri in cinema, best remembered for "Mother India".
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Natalie Portman
American-Israeli actress with an Academy Award for "Black Swan", a Harvard graduate, recognized for "Leon - The Professional", "V for Vendetta", and the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy.
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Nicole Kidman
Australian and American actress with an Academy Award for "The Hours", recognized for "Moulin Rouge!", "Big Little Lies", and a career spanning four decades.
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Octavia Spencer
American actress with an Academy Award for "The Help" and three Oscar nominations, recognized for "Hidden Figures" and "The Shape of Water".
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Olivia Colman
British actress with an Academy Award for "The Favourite", recognized for "Broadchurch", "The Crown" as Queen Elizabeth II, and a career of versatile comic-dramatic work.
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Olivia de Havilland
British-American actress with two Academy Awards for Best Actress, a five-time Oscar nominee whose 1944 lawsuit reshaped the Hollywood studio contract system.
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Olivia Wilde
American actress, director, and producer best known for "House", "Tron - Legacy", and her directorial features "Booksmart" and "Don't Worry Darling".
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Pam Grier
American actress who pioneered female action leads in 1970s blaxploitation cinema, recognized for "Coffy", "Foxy Brown", and Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown".
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Patricia Arquette
American actress with an Academy Award for "Boyhood" and Emmy Awards for "Medium" and "Escape at Dannemora".
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Priyanka Chopra
Indian actress, singer, and producer, one of the highest-paid actresses in India, with US television and film roles in "Quantico" and "The Matrix Resurrections".
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Qi Shu
Taiwanese actress who became an internationally recognized lead in Hou Hsiao-hsien's films and crossover hits including "The Transporter".
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Queen Latifah
American actress, rapper, and producer, an Academy Award nominee for "Chicago" and Emmy winner for "Life Support".
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Quvenzhane Wallis
American actress who became the youngest Best Actress Oscar nominee at age nine for "Beasts of the Southern Wild".
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Rachel Weisz
British actress with an Academy Award for "The Constant Gardener", with roles in "The Mummy", "About a Boy", and the BBC's "Dead Ringers".
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Reese Witherspoon
American actress and producer with an Academy Award for "Walk the Line", who built Hello Sunshine into a major prestige-television production company.
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Rita Hayworth
American actress and dancer, one of the top film stars and pin-ups of the 1940s, defined by the title role in "Gilda".
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Rosario Dawson
American actress and producer known for "Sin City", "Rent", and her recurring role as Ahsoka Tano in the "Star Wars" Disney+ series.
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Saoirse Ronan
Irish actress with four Academy Award nominations before age 26, recognized for "Atonement", "Brooklyn", "Lady Bird", and "Little Women".
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Sarah Jessica Parker
American actress, producer, and fashion entrepreneur best known as Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the City" and its sequels.
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Shirley MacLaine
American actress, dancer, and author with an Academy Award for "Terms of Endearment", one of the few stars whose career bridges 1950s Hollywood to today.
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Sigourney Weaver
American actress whose role as Ellen Ripley in the "Alien" franchise reshaped action cinema, with three Academy Award nominations and a career spanning drama and comedy.
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Sissy Spacek
American actress with an Academy Award for "Coal Miner's Daughter", with six Oscar nominations across genres including "Carrie" and "In the Bedroom".
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Sophie Marceau
French actress who became a star at 14 with "La Boum" and continued through major French films and the James Bond entry "The World Is Not Enough".
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Thandiwe Newton
British actress with an Emmy for HBO's "Westworld" and a career across "Mission - Impossible 2", "Crash", and "Solo - A Star Wars Story".
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Tilda Swinton
British actress with an Academy Award for "Michael Clayton", recognized for art-house collaborations with Derek Jarman, Wes Anderson, and Luca Guadagnino.
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Tina Fey
American actress, writer, and producer, the first female head writer for "Saturday Night Live", recognized for "30 Rock", "Mean Girls", and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt".
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Tippi Hedren
American actress and animal-rights activist who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and "Marnie", later founding the Shambala Preserve big-cat sanctuary.
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Toni Collette
Australian actress with an Academy Award nomination for "The Sixth Sense" and an Emmy for "United States of Tara", recognized for "Hereditary" and "Knives Out".
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Vera Farmiga
American actress with an Academy Award nomination for "Up in the Air", recognized for "The Departed", "Bates Motel", and "The Conjuring" series.
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Vidya Balan
Indian actress with five Filmfare Awards and the Padma Shri, credited with reviving female-led Hindi cinema with "The Dirty Picture" and "Kahaani".
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Viola Davis
American actress with the Triple Crown of Acting and an EGOT, the first Black performer to achieve both, recognized for "Fences", "How to Get Away with Murder", and "The Woman King".
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Vivien Leigh
British actress with two Academy Awards for Best Actress, recognized for "Gone with the Wind" and "A Streetcar Named Desire".
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Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, and television host, one of few EGOT winners, recognized for "Ghost", "The Color Purple", and her two decades on "The View".
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Willa Holland
American actress and model recognized for "The O.C.", "Gossip Girl", and "Arrow", and the voice of Aqua in the Kingdom Hearts video game series.
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Winona Ryder
American actress with two Academy Award nominations for "Little Women" and "The Age of Innocence", recognized for her work with Tim Burton and Netflix's "Stranger Things".
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Ximena Navarrete
Mexican actress and former Miss Universe (2010) who transitioned to leading roles in Televisa's telenovelas including "La Tempestad".
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Xochitl Gomez
American actress recognized for "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" as America Chavez and the Netflix series "The Baby-Sitters Club".
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Yalitza Aparicio
Mexican actress who received an Academy Award nomination for her debut role as Cleo in Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma".
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Yvonne Strahovski
Australian actress recognized for "Chuck", "Dexter", and "The Handmaid's Tale", with three Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
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Zhang Ziyi
Chinese actress recognized for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers", and "Memoirs of a Geisha".
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Zoe Kravitz
American actress and director, known for "Big Little Lies", "The Batman" as Catwoman, and her directorial debut "Blink Twice".
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